A pair of silk stockings

THEME

This story is about a lady who finds fifteen dollars and for her it was a huge amount of money. She feels really good because that money makes her feel as an important person and it is something that she had not felt for a long time because they are a very poor family. Mrs. Sommers is thinking about what she can do with the money, she always looking for a good sale and suddenly she finds a pair of silk stocking that she desires for her. She is faking that is checking the silk stockings texture and finally she buys a pair. The story shows how Mrs. Sommers is losing her responsibility, she has children, she does not want to leave her family but she does not leave her desires and dreams either. She is surprised because when she went to a restaurant people were not surprised about her clothes; people treated her as the story says as princess of royal blood. It shows how society cares more about appearance and fancy clothes.  And she is fighting against her own feelings. It shows that when a woman has family and tries to fulfill a role of wife and mother, they forget about their own dreams. This short story says a lot about that Mrs. Sommers is living a unreal life because she prefers spend that money in things which are unnecessary for her, even though those things give her happiness and satisfaction however, she has family and she left them alone without a mother, meanwhile she is doing her activities and with each activity she dreads going home. Finally, this nice short story reflects the role of the woman in society.

CHARACTERS

Mrs Sommer: She is a woman who wants to fulfill her dreams, she is ambitious, dreamer and she is tired about her situation (Poverty). She is in the thirties, I think that she is not old but not so young. She is thin and beautiful, with straight hair and with classy. Even though, she is poor and mother.

In the story only talks about Mrs Sommer as main character but it talks about a gaudy lady as well. The gaudy woman is in the theater. She is fatty and tacky. She uses fancy clothes but her clothes is quite ridiculous. She is funny, crazy and outgoing. But she is not that much beautiful, that’s why she has to catch attention to other people in the theater. 

Mrs Sommer

She is very happy with her new silk stockings and She is wearing fancy clothes but just looks like it is not expensive at all. She is just trying to wear as a woman of high society.